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Southampton Boat Show The eleventh Southampton International Boat Show was opened by Sir Alec Rose on Monday September 17 in brilliant sunshine, and in the week that followed all exhibitors reported business beyond their expectations: orders...
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A Small Boat (3)
Anglesey.—27th July.
Searched unsuccessfully for a small boat the only occupant of which, Captain Owen Jones, a Gold Medallist of the Institution, was drowned. (See Obi- tuary, page 604.)—Rewards, £5 5s. 6d..
A Small Sailing Boat
27th No- vember. A search was made for a small sailing boat. She was found bottom up and the two men on board were already drowned.—Rewards, £11 14s..
A Fishing Boat
Hythe and Dungeness, Kent.—19th October. A Folkestone fishing boat had not returned when due and a search was made. Meanwhile she made port safely.—Rewards, Hythe, £27 15s. 6d. ; Dungeness, £33 7s. 6d..
A Small Boat
Whilst the motor Life-boat, which has been sent very recently to Sunderland, was out for exercise on the 21st June, the Coxswain observed a small boat about three and a half miles off the port show- ing signals of distress. He immediately...
A Fishing Boat
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 12.45 in the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1949, information was telephoned from Duncannon that a local fishing boat was in distress off Broom Hill, and the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched at 1.10...
A Sailing Boat
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of July, 1954, the police reported that a Conway sailing boat, with a crew of two, had capsized near the life-boat station.
At two o'clock the life-boat Field...
A Rowing Boat (3)
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 4.45 on the after- noon of the 18th of August, 1954, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that two boys were in difficulties in a rowing boat three miles south of Fowey. At 5.28 the life-boat C.D.E.C. put'out in a flood...
A Motor Boat (1)
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At 7.20 on the evening of 7th of June. 1956, it was reported that two people had gone out in the afternoon in their motor boat to look at their lobster pots and had not returned. The life- boat H. F. Bailey put...
A Motor Boat
Donaghadee, Co. Down. — At 12.10, on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1950, the Bangor coastguard reported that a motor boat was adrift in Donaghadee Sound. Twenty min- utes later the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly was launched, in...